CIVIL WAR MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS
JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS
Gardner, Johnson CountyCemetery
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Type: gone Description: "There are also soldier monuments in the cemeteries at Monticello, Gardner, and Spring Hill, Johnson county, costing each about $400, raised by subscription, erected shortly after the one at Olathe" - Martin, 1910. This site has been inspected several times and the monument has not been located. References: Martin, 1910 Photographs: SUV Registry Status: Gone But Not Forgotten |
Monticello, Johnson CountyUnion Cemetery
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Type: Granite Monument Description: Granite column with decorative urn on top. The inscriptions read: "To The Memory Of ~ Our Unknown Dead ~ Asleep Unnamed And Unknown ~ Until Gods Angels On The ~ Whirlwind Rides ~ To Claim His Own". "To The Memory Of ~ Our Soldiers Who ~ Starved In Southern ~ Prisons". "To Our Heroes Of ~ 1861-1865 ~ Dedicated ~ May 30, 1895". "Erected By ~ John Anderson ~ Womans Relief Corps ~ No 194 Wilder Kan". The base of the monument has the marking: "H.E.Barker ~ Kansas City." The step in front of the marker reads "In Memoriam". References: Martin, 1910, Wells, 2002 Photographs: RM Thies, August 1, 1995 DE McGovern, July 11, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial SUVCW documentation needed |
Olathe, Johnson CountyOlathe Memorial Cemetery
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Type: Granite Soldier Statue Description: Soldier monument costing $1000, raised by Franklin post No, 68. The base and body of the monument is of granite, surmounted by a life-size figure of a soldier standing at rest, executed in white marble. In a circle at its base are buried thirty-seven soldiers. The inscription reads on the west side: "Erected By Franklin Post, No. 68, G. A. R. In memory Of Our Dead Comrades." On the north side is a representation of a G. A. R. badge and the date 1893. It was erected in 1893. Dedicated Memorial Day 1897, by John Smith Post, Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic. References: Baruch and Beckman, 1978, Martin, 1910, SOS! 1994, Wells, 2002 Photographs: DE McGovern, July 11, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial SUVCW documentation needed |
Spring Hill, Johnson CountySpring Hill Cemetery
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Type: Granite Monument Description: Granite monument with large polished granite orb on top. The orb is inscribed: "Rest ~ Soldier Rest". The front of the monument is inscribed: "The Flag They Fought For ~ (engraving of US Flag) ~ To The Memory Of ~ Our Unknown Dead ~ They Sleep ~ On Southern Battlefields ~ And 'Neath The Ocean Waves ~ General Curtis Relief Corp No 28 ~ Dedicated May 30, 1897". The back of the Monument is inscribed: " To The Memory Of ~ Those Soldiers Who Fell ~ During The War Of ~ 1861 to 1865". References: Martin, 1910 Photographs: DE McGovern, February 14, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial SUVCW documentation needed |
Spring Hill, Johnson CountySpring Hill Cemetery Entrance Gate
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Type: Entry Gate Description: The Cemetery is entered through two columns separated by one-way single lane roadways with a central brick and stone monument in the center. The center panel of the monument is inscribed: "Springhill Cemetery ~ In Honor of ~ the Veterans of the Civil War ~ 1861-1865, The Spanish American ~ War 1890, Our Country's Defend- ~ ers in the World War 1917-1918 ~ and the Loyal Women of ~ Springhill and Community ~ Sponsored by W.R.C. No 28 A.D. 1923". On the back side of the panel is mounted a small brass plaque reading: "In Memory of the ~ Meyer-Dunn Family". References: reported by DE McGovern Photographs: DE McGovern, February 14, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial SUVCW documentation needed |
